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ACTIVITY REPORT

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Introduction

This report sets out activity for the third quarter of the Project’s final year - Year 3 ‘History of Tourism’. The report follows the same format as within the Action Plan submitted in the original bid for funding. There are additional elements at the end of the table which pick up previously uncompleted activity or where activities are naturally continuing from year to year.

Please refer to the Project spreadsheets which document the figures used within the table below. The table sets out an ongoing tally of outputs for the entire Project (column 4), quantifying activity since August 2013 (the Project start). Targets for Year 3 appear in column 2, and then the overall tally of activity for Year 3 appears in column 3. For a full written description of activity for each previous quarter of the Project please refer to the details set out in previous reports.

A vast array of the interpretative outputs from the Project are publicly available within the National Park Centre in Lynmouth as well as other locations around Exmoor, not to mention the feast of film, photos and material accessible on YouTube, Flickr, the Project webpage and Exmoor National Park website as well as via the App ‘Discover Exmoor’. The Project Facebook page is very active and all events and activities are regularly tweeted, with weekly posts such as #FlashbackFriday tying in with our current interpretative themes. Please refer to those outputs as well as this report to gain a full picture of the Project’s activity.

Activity Annual Target

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Year 3

Tally – whole Project

Status and Activity Since Last Report

Review of year 2 activitiesin consultation with the project advisory group and volunteers

1 1 2 completed

Call for Volunteers Advertise & recruit

Maintain 20+

5 vols signed up

72 vols signed up 21 volunteer days were contributed to the Project this quarter (to end September):

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volunteers to deliver project activities. 8 x 16-25 year olds

21 under 25s

27 active vols

3.5 days of unskilled volunteer activity 16.5 skilled 1.0 professional

Delivered by 28 volunteers

Regular heritage talk, walk, tour programme with local societies around the theme of Exmoor’s Inspiring Landscapes (woodlands)

24 walks, talks, tours, trails

32 walks and talks

418 people attended

98

2083

people attended

17 walks and talks were organised this quarter, enjoyed by 233 people.

2 talks were organised during this quarter under the banner of ‘Evenings@thePavilion’:

Cosmic Exmoor – a journey into the night sky as it appears over Exmoor, Europe’s first Dark Sky Reserve, by local author and astronomer Seb Jay. This was booked out.

Character of Our Coast, a talk about the North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Biosphere Reserve.

2 afternoon talks took place during this quarter: The Exmoor Longstone Project by Linda Blanchard the Pleasure steamers of the Bristol Channel, by the Paddle Steamer Preservation

Society. This formed part of the line-up of activities for the Victorian Festival.

13 guided walks took place, as the Heritage Walk Leaders programme starts to show its true potential:

3 x Discover Porlock Marsh guided walks 1 x Victorian Porlock guided walk

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3 x Lynmouth guided walks 1 x Victorian Lynton guided walk 2 x Discover Dunster guided walks 1 x Victorian Dunster guided walk Wild Flowers and Plants of the Watersmeet Valley guided walk Wonderful Lyn guided walk

Training for volunteers 15 days of expert time for training. 4 sessions per year

10 training events

42 total attendance

25 vol training events

140 total attendance

11th April – Signagelive Training – Attended by 2 Volunteers 20th April – Dictaphone Training – Attended by 2 Volunteers 4th May – Interpretation Training – Attended by 2 Volunteers 15th June – Picasa Photo Editing Training – Attended by 2 Volunteers There was also informal training for volunteers with the Volunteer Co-ordinator

Launch Heritage theme memory challenge

One theme every two months, 10 new responses on average

7 themes

98 responses

12themes

373responses

During this quarter the ‘Your Exmoor’ section has launched the themes of: Connection Exmoor –Transport (28 responses, plus magnetic poems that were ever-

changing and so not recorded). This theme in particular was accompanied by regular tweets to share archived images of Exmoor Transport, which received considerable online interest, comments and reminiscence.

Victorian Exmoor (8 responses, plus magnetic poems that were ever-changing and so not recorded). This theme in particular was accompanied by regular tweets to share archived images of Victorian Exmoor.

During each theme we have held special celebration events to encourage people to share experiences around each theme (see Your Exmoor Heritage Activity Day Workshops below)

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NB Year one figures are not included in the whole project tally. Delivery of heritage challenges with community youth groups

1 3 completed

Temporary exhibition – e.g. Louisa Lifeboat

2000 viewings

1

100 viewings

2

3000 viewings

completed

Temporary exhibition with West Exmoor Federation (of Year 1 work)

1 exhibition130 school children taking part in exhibition and 1000 visits

3 small exhibitions

A small exhibition has been on display within Lynton Primary School for the last year. Unable to progress further owing to staff changes within the Federation.

Family Fun day with West Exmoor Federation

1 day (not annual)300 people

2 events

175 people attending

Completed

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Recruitment and training of year 2 volunteer heritage placements

2 x6 week placements

2 Heritage Placements

1 Work Experience Student

3 Heritage Placements

9 work experience placements

After the considerable work undertaken last quarter to recruit Heritage Placements we recruited two Research and Interpretation Heritage Placements. Their agreed workplan included:

Researching and producing content for a ‘Tourism in Exmoor Timeline’ and banner exhibition, which was delivered this quarter and will be set up for display on the touch table within Dunster National Park Centre

Researching and producing several 'iPad stories’ on the subject of surfing, seaside food (inc. Porlock oyster farming) and hunting. These are awaited.

Plan and script short film to be commissioned on the subject of ‘Victorian tourism - Victorian Postcards and Photographs'. This is awaited.

Temporary exhibitions – Year 2

2

30 people taking part in creating exhibitions and 2000 visits

19 Exhibitions

23430 people viewing

61

Exhibitions

60480 people viewing

4 exhibitions have been displayed during this quarter. An estimated 6000 people viewed them.

Calvert Trust Exmoor Character of Our Coast - North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Exmoor’s Victorian Fern Craze Inspired By Exmoor, pointillism by Sharon Plant of Exmoor Arts

The following iPad stories are being developed for completion end August:

- Cliff railway- Lady Ada

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- Wildwood/working woods- Knight family- Hope Bourne- Welsh links- Victorian ferns

Testing of the mobile App

100 people to trial the app

100>1000 downloads

Launched and live. Completed

Your Exmoor heritage activity day workshops

14 workshops,10 people average each

23 events

687 people attended

30 on average per event

67 events

1892 people attended

28 on average per event

3900 poetry responses (from poetry box project alone)

There were 11 events in this category this quarter:

4 x Cliff Railway Talk & Tour Your Exmoor event Connecting Exmoor, led by local transport enthusiast Martyn

Babb 5 x Family Craft Workshops inspired by Exmoor heritage and wildlife (eg soil

printing, seaweed monoprinting, butterfly kites) Your Exmoor event Victorian Exmoor, with slideshow of images from the Project

archive

158 people attended – 14 per event

The Poetry Boxes are out again for their third and final year – this time around Dunster Medieval village and surrounding walks. We’ve already received happy comments via social

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media by surprised and delighted visitors stumbling across them. They will be collected at the end of August for an exhibition in September and a hardback book containing favourite poems from all three locations later in the Autumn.

Family learning days 8 family days

3 events


34 events


The Project contributed to the very successful Big Adventure Day at Nutcombe Bottom during this quarter, at which around 300 people engaged directly with activities provided through the Project. The Project team and volunteers ran 5 of the wildlife and heritage activities from the loan box scheme. It was rewarding to watch families being met along their woodland trail by invitations to have a go at mapsticks, block rubbings, soil painting, making bug hotels and ‘framing the landscape’. These activity kits work extremely well in this kind of setting and are a real success of the Project.

Taster sessions for new audiences

8 per year (more on request)

40 people visiting

12 pieces of content

3 sessions

82 people

23 sessions


The following taster days/open days were organised this quarter:

Piles Mill Open Day (during National Mills Weekend) Allerford Rural Life Museum (during Victorian Week) Allerford Forge (during Victorian Week)

The Exmoor Centre have confirmed that 4 sessions are being offered to special need and vulnerable groups from outside the area to come and experience Exmoor.

Visitor days 12 visitor activity days ;

29 events

1487

72 events

2086 people

11 events were organised this quarter linked to 5 local businesses/organisations, to which 1076 people came:

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Advertised by 20 local businesses

people attended

16 businesses involved

attended

34 businesses involved

2 x Glorious Glass stained glass workshops 3 x Jewellery Workshops – starts with a beach-comb to find sea glass or pottery

which is then turned into beautiful silver-wire-wrapped bracelets and necklaces. Silk Painting Workshop Patchwork Wreath Making Workshop Victorian celebration day at Woody Bay Steam Train Station 2 x Victorian slideshow and Fern Craze Exhibition Victorian celebration day at Dunster Castle

Deliver Local Interpreter sessions

4 sessions per year to develop 20 local heritage champions, tour guides and walk leaders.

11 new local heritage interpreters to be trained

6 Training Sessions

17 Local Heritage Interpreters trained, now leading guided walks

11 specific sessions training sessions (9 Walk Leader, 1 Heritage Interpretation, 1 shoreline-guide)

13th April – Walk Leader meeting to discuss route and collect resources with new Dunster Walk Group.

5th May – Walk leader meeting to walk Dunster Route with new Dunster Walk Group.

Delivery of rolling Fortnightly 5 schools 1 Viking/Anglo Combe Martin Sea School’s guide to the Exmoor shore, by children for children, was

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programme of heritage workshops for West Exmoor Federation

Exmoor heritage sessions Primary school children (approx 130) to attend at least one session over the year.

750 children

2 field trips

Saxon costume and battle day, attended by 53 children

1 amazing in-situ re-enactment of Hubba the Dane attacking Countisbury Hill, fully costumed and scripted

1304 school children engaged in total since project start

2 mini-films

1 slideshow

3 temporary exhibitions

received from the printers. It was extremely well received and found its way into local and regional press.

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Heritage Open Day Events (1 per year; need to catch-up on undelivered Year 1 event)

500 people attending over the weekend;

1

42 people

2 By way of a contribution to the Project, the National Trust opened Piles Mill in May as part of the National Mills Weekend.

42 people visited.

Heritage AV production with College students

1 audio-visual production.

2 20 short films This quarter we have received finals of:

The Culbone Hamlet community film

We have received drafts of the following films, to be finalised very shortly:

Exmoor Holidays Remembered: 4 film pieces produced during a filming workshop led by Somerset Film and involving the special needs students of the Foxes Academy in Minehead. The students developed questions surrounding tourism on Exmoor which they then asked to Project volunteers. They then went out and about to film their local area for use with the films. These should be ready during the next quarter of the Project.

Porlock Community Orchard expressed interest in their orchard being documented through the year and the film of that is now near completion. It includes 4 specific films detailing Spring, Summer, Apple Day and Wassailing. These are lovely films and will be finalised very shortly.

Still to come is an exciting piece of film:

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Exmoor’s oldest tree, The General, is being filmed through the year, showing ‘A Year in the Life of the General’, including drone footage and a crane to reach the uppermost branches. If there is still time, the plan is that this film will be taken around to 4 local schools by the film maker to engage the children in the filming process as well as the heritage of the tree.

North Devon Schools and College Challenge (landscape photography competition.)

250 entries ; a successful dynamic poster

5 competition

65 entries

9 competitions

349 entries

The Project contributed to the local celebrations of the Queen’s Birthday by running a competition for children to design a brochure for a fictional visit by the Queen to Exmoor. We received 5 entries across 3 age categories, with lots of glitter and photos of princesses riding ponies on Exmoor!

Community events for Exmoor residents

3 each year ; 20 people attending on average per event;

4 event

137 people attended

8 events

326 people attended

2 events were delivered this quarter:

the special film viewing of a documentary showing the old Blue Motors bus tours in May to which 22 of the original daytrippers came. They always used to stop for a Hockings icecream and so after a great deal of searching and chasing, the guests were served their Hockings icecream during the event.

A community supper for residents of Exford and surrounding areas was held for them to ‘Bring and Share’ their photos and stories of old Exmoor. This was a lovely evening, attended by 28 locals, and we heard interesting tales of times gone by – where farmhands ate 5 square meals a day. We also scanned in an old photo which seems to suggest that the pre-1952 Tarr Steps were higher than when reconstructed after the 1952 flood.

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Deliver 8 Education days

schools across wider Exmoor

1 school day at Exmoor Woodland Festival, 3 schools

5 schools (soundscape workshops), approx. 20 children per school

2 x 33 students at Foxes Academy

Total of 750 school children

1 online resource now launched

38 education sessions

1304 school children

24 schools involved

The two-day workshop and field trips undertaken as part of the film workshop by Foxes Academy have been attributed as an education day, but are reported above under the AV production by college students.

An exciting shoreline educational resource has been developed in partnership with the Devon Wildlife Trust and we look forward to it returning from the printers shortly. This complements the free ‘shore species’ leaflet already produced through the Project which has a more general audience.

Other work with schools is due later in the Project:

4 Riddle workshops linked to the Exmoor Icon Campaign Filmmaking workshops linked to the filming of The General

The Project has been developing an interactive online learning resource about tourism on Exmoor and this is nearing completion.

Deliver 2 Educator 2 days in 100 6 educator events The Exmoor Shoreguide (by children, for children) has now been printed and is being

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days/ mini-conference year 2

30 educators overall

educators circulated to visitor information points along the coast of Exmoor.

The Project also contributed to the North Devon Teachers Training Day, hosted by Lynmouth Pavilion, where one of our Heritage Walk Leaders led 100 teachers on our Flood Walk around Lynmouth.

Deliver local business information days

2

10 local businesses attending

4 events

36 people

12 business information days

261 people attended (average of 22 people per event)

The Project supported 2 business information days this quarter:

The Coleridge Way Business Workshop. Agenda and attendance register for this event are attached as separate documents. Walking, particularly long distance footpaths, has been an integral part of Exmoor’s tourism for many decades. 5 long distance routes converge at Lynmouth, one of which is the newly extended Coleridge Way. Fifty businesses attended this informative workshop.

The Project team are planning a Grand Finale on August 11th to promote the resources available as a result of the Project activity.

Mystery heritage trail (geocache) – from year 1

1 8

40 trails completed

10.5 The Mosaic Young Champions have now put in place 7 geocaches across Exmoor. These went live in April and have a dedicated volunteer to check them and update them as necessary after Project completion.

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Iconic heritage campaign -from year 1

Target 1000 votes ; 10 distinct heritage items selected; Exhibited July 2014

0 Owing to the length of time it has taken to secure the support from parish councils and schools in 5 locations across Exmoor, the Project is sadly no longer able to continue supporting the development of the Riddler Icon Campaign. Chris Jelley will hopefully develop his ideas into a separate project and receive funding from elsewhere in the future.

Chris has been visiting local schools as arranged to develop their riddle ideas based around icons of Exmoor. These will reported during the next quarter, once complete.

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Additional Outputs

Not included within the Action Plan above are additional outputs which are recorded in the Outputs spreadsheet, namely:


Tally – Year 2

Tally Year 3

Tally Whole Project

Status

Audio-visual productions 3 overall

30 10 55 “Culbone: the Hamlet” was completed this quarter and is available to view on YouTube

Digital ‘stories’ – responses to Exmoor as part of the Your Exmoor Project (young person’s, children’s, family and visitor content)

100 124 The ‘Holidays Past’ project continues to record the memories of repeat visitors. In total we have handed out 28 special Holidays Past packs, distributed to tourism operators across Exmoor who are all taking part in recording the memories of their visitors. There’s been considerable interest in this aspect of the project within the press. A four page spread in due to appear in the Exmoor magazine on this topic in August. We have already had 2 books returned with people’s memories and photos of lifetime’s holidaying on Exmoor. We are requesting that all books are returned by the end of July so will report more on this in the next quarter.

10 new oral history recordings have been received this quarter. We have employed an individual to help develop all of the Project’s oral history recordings into interpreted ‘finished pieces’ to share publicly within the National Park Centre and online.

Outreach No specific target

Meetings and discussions this quarter with:

ENPA (various) Exmoor Arts

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Status

Exmoor Centre Somerset Film Dunster Castle (NT) Storywalks Victorian Society Woody Bay steam railway Lyn Children’s party Holnicott Estate (NT) – Piles Mill Allerford Museum Allerford Forge Cliff Railway

Launch and Celebration events No specific target

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6271

8 events386 people

Two celebration and launch events were supported this quarter:

The beautiful landscape of Exmoor inspires many local artists and art-related tourism is a growing sector, swelling visitor numbers. To support this trend across Exmoor, the Project contributed towards the launch of the new Exmoor Arts Trail (which is accessible online). Sixty people came to this very successful launch event.

The Project supported the printing of a song book of lyrics for traditional Exmoor songs. This “Brendon Sing” Songbook was launched in May and attracted 55 people. It was broadcast on local radio and will feature in Devon Life Magazine in the Autumn.

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Tally Year 3

Tally Whole Project

Status

Children involved/represented/engaged through Project activities

No specific target

2836 2782 7917 400 this quarter

Total members of the public involved/engaged through Project activities

No specific target

31976 27813 74522 8268 this quarter

Summary

Highlights from this quarter include:

The level of interest shown in the Holidays Past memory collection Project, especially from the Press - we look forward to seeing articles in print. We loved being able to reproduce Exmoor songs in print – visitors and locals can all join in with traditional folk song sessions now. We were delighted

that the launch event for that songbook was so well attended and again generated interest from radio and the press. We’re excited to have the Poetry Boxes out around Dunster – these always seem to delight people. The Blue Motors DVD-showing was a particularly fun event, involving Hockings Icecream in a cornet… We really loved the final Culbone Hamlet filmpiece The community supper in Exford was a fabulous evening with a few families coming along who’d lived for generations within Exford. They all loved

swapping stories and seeing photos that people had dusted off from the attic. There was a real buzz to the evening.

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The brilliant 2 day filmworkshop with special needs students at Foxes Academy in Minehead – everyone involved seemed to have a great time! And of course seeing Victorians popping up all across Exmoor….

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